Elizabeth Woodville

Elizabeth Woodville (1437-8 June 1492) was Queen consort of England from 1 May 1464 to 3 October 1470 and from 11 April 1471 to 9 April 1483 as the wife of Edward IV of England.

Biography
Elizabeth Woodville was born in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England in 1437, the daughter of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg. Her family was mid-ranked in the English aristocracy, and she was first married to the Lancastrian noble John Grey of Groby. Her husband was killed at St. Albans in 1461, leaving her a widowed mother of two sons, Thomas and Richard Grey. She remarried to King Edward IV of England in 1464, the first time since the Norman Conquest that an English king had married one of his subjects, and she was the first consort to be crowned Queen. The advancement of her siblings and children alienated Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, who eventually switched to the Lancastrian cause. Elizabeth remained influential during the short-lived reign of her son Edward V of England and the reign of her brother-in-law Richard III of England, who had her sons Richard Grey, Edward, Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York murdered. She secured the accession of Henry Tudor to the English throne in 1485, ending the Wars of the Roses, but she died in obscurity in 1492.